RFC: Automatic trouble reporting

[Johan Walles]

Now that I think about it some more, the client-side should be what 
needs implementing first.  To begin with, the actual results could just 
as well go to a mailing list or whatever.  Finding a good way of 
analyzing the result might be easier once you get to look at some real 
data :-).

  Regards //Johan

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Waugh <jeff.waugh at ubuntu.com>
To: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
Sent: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:10:45 +1100
Subject: Re: RFC: Automatic trouble reporting

> Regarding Bugzilla, it is (IMO) a very nice tool for manual bug 
reporting,
> but it isn't very well suited for statistics gathering.  It won't 
answer
> the question "which program in Ubuntu crashes the most?" or "Was the 
new
> release of X.Org's ATI driver any better than the previous one?".

There are plenty of modifications such as these on other bugzilla-based
systems, such as GNOME's "find duplicate crasher bugs" scripts. The 
rest of
it is just reporting.

> On the server side, I imagine the results should be presented as a
> high-score list, roughly like Debian's Popularity contest.  That would
> give you a "profile" of what parts of Ubuntu need attention.

Bugzilla provides good reporting on the stuff it does already. :-)


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